Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile.
"We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo.
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Wednesday, 31 October 2018
trump and tree of hate he seeded with his hate speeches.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-pittsburgh-synagogue-visit-shooting_us_5bd8c95ae4b01abe6a190541 The haters in Burma and pseudo monks should also take note. One commentator on CNN said, after pipe bombs -- trump's"presidential behavior" never lasts longer than 48 hours,"never longer than yogurt." And true enough at 3 AM he was tweeting hatred again. Then he has sent troops to "guard border" and is talking about taking away citizenship birthrights of immigrants who are not citizens, or not yet citizens. Green card holders have a long waiting period. Local officials and some leading politicians did not go with trmp family to Pittsburgh. It is said, GOP/Republicans are losing hope for midterm elections and they should. With a so-called prez. like that! 10-31-2018

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-makes-fake-story-justify-political-rally-same-day-pittsburg-synagogue-1190687
He lies about how many days NY Stock Exchange remained closed.
In fact, it was closed from 9/11 to 9/17.
How could it "remain open" when planes hit Wall Street area itself.
The level of "education" as denoted in spelling errors, etc on the hate sites/twitter feeds of the pipe bomber and the Pittsburgh shooter,show the low level of the trmp followers, blind rats.
They are not "from the Middle East" they are home grown white supremacist domestic terrorists.
If you threaten people and cause terror, you are a terrorist.
10-28-2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22hSWyUBbPI
not impressive--"I was given Middle Eats Peace Process"
oh yeah??
basically white jewish marble face who married rich.
just a surrogate for trmp, that's all.
Better to interview a Turkish police officer at this point,
10-28-2018

Every American president since FDR has courted the Saudis, but none of them have done it as avidly and crudely as Donald Trump,” said Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer who served in the spy agency for 30 years.
In his first trip abroad as president last year, Trump made the unusual choice to travel to Riyadh, where he took part in a traditional all-male dance with the Saudi royals, swaying back and forth with a ceremonial sword in hand.
"That was a tremendous day. Tremendous investments into the United States, and our military community is very happy," Trump tweeted after his first day of meetings. The Saudis projected his words on large digital displays. Trump referred to the trip again on Friday in his reaction to the Saudi admission of involvement in Khashoggi’s death.
Image: White House senior advisor Jared Kushner attends events with U.S. President Donald Trump at the Royal Court in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner at the Royal Court in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on May 20, 2017.Jonathan Ernst / Reuters file
But the vast arms sales and investments promised haven't yet materialized. The Saudis are still haggling with the U.S. about the cost of buying the THAAD ballistic missile defense system. Instead of the $110 billion in arms sales initially touted by Trump, now the administration says only about $14 billion worth of weapons have been implemented with signed letters — and many of those originated under the previous administration.
The State Department was largely shut out of the planning for the president’s trip to Riyadh, and instead the task was entrusted to Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, a senior adviser to the president. The young real estate businessman with no diplomatic experience reportedly came away impressed by the crown prince, as they were two thirty-somethings anointed by powerful families with shared agendas
Inside Saudi Arabia, the crown prince is sometimes derisively referred to as “Mohammed bin Kushner,” said Riedel, who wrote a book on the U.S.-Saudi relationship.

Main article: 2017 Saudi Arabian purge
On 4 November 2017, Al-Waleed was arrested in Saudi Arabia in a "corruption crackdown" conducted by a new royal anti-corruption committee.[48] This was done on authority of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, his cousin (both are grandsons of Ibn Saud, first monarch and founder of Saudi Arabia).
Just days before his arrest, Al-Waleed reportedly contacted US-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi (who has publicly criticized the Saudi government in the past) and invited him to return to the Kingdom in order to contribute to Mohammad bin Salman's vision.[49]
The authorities in Saudi Arabia were demanding $6 billion from Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal,
In total, 320 princes, ministers and businessmen were detained.[50] Al-Waleed was released from detention in late January 2018, nearly three months after his arrest,[19] after he and most of the other Saudi notables arrested the previous year had made a financial settlement of some kind with the Saudi government.[18] Prince Mutaib Bin Abdullah, the son of the late King Abdullah (1924–2015), was released after paying a reported $1 billion.[51] According to a Wall Street Journal report, the price for his release was $6 billion.[52]
The Saudi Arabia government did not disclosed charges or produced evidence and the negotiations were held in secret.[53]

Capital and physical punishments imposed by Saudi courts, such as beheading, stoning (to death), amputation, crucifixion and lashing, as well as the sheer number of executions have been strongly criticized.[186] The death penalty can be imposed for a wide range of offences including murder, rape, armed robbery, repeated drug use, apostasy, adultery, witchcraft and sorcery and can be carried out by beheading with a sword, stoning or firing squad, followed by crucifixion.[187][188][189] The 345 reported executions between 2007 and 2010 were all carried out by public beheading. The last reported execution for sorcery took place in September 2014.[190]
Although repeated theft can be punishable by amputation of the right hand, only one instance of judicial amputation was reported between 2007 and 2010. Homosexual acts are punishable by flogging or death.[187][189][191] Atheism or "calling into question the fundamentals of the Islamic religion on which this country is based" is considered a terrorist crime.[192] Lashings are a common form of punishment[193] and are often imposed for offences against religion and public morality such as drinking alcohol and neglect of prayer and fasting obligations.[187]
Retaliatory punishments, or Qisas, are practised: for instance, an eye can be surgically removed at the insistence of a victim who lost his own eye.[182] Families of someone unlawfully killed can choose between demanding the death penalty or granting clemency in return for a payment of diyya (blood money), by the perpetrator.[194]
Even after allowing women to drive and work, public places in Saudi Arabia are still gender-segregated and the kingdom has very strict laws on how unrelated men and women can dine together. In September 2018, a man was arrested by the Saudi authorities for appearing in a video with his female colleague while having breakfast at a hotel, where they both work.[195]
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Granville Phillips
Granville Phillips, 12 years in Saudi Arabia
Answered Nov 28, 2016 · Upvoted by Steven Merz, PhD Candidate Chemical Engineering · Author has 875 answers and 806.5k answer views
This is not transparent as Saudi Arabia keeps these details as basically a State secret. Stated reserves in 2015 were 206bn barrels. So on the basis of 2015 consumption, about 70 years. The trouble is no one really knows. The stated reserves are the same as 10 years ago - so either new reserves have been found (and no major discovery was announced) or oil sources have become more economically viable with new technology.
The reality is that after 50 years if there has been no economic diversification by Saudi, they are in trouble. I they manage to diversify economically then this will be less of a leading question.
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Aidan Keener
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Answered Jul 17, 2018
As the Green Revolution continues to spread around the world over the next decades, producing oil will become less and less profitable. Around 2050, oil production will no longer be profitable for most nations, and by 2100 the reserves will be depleted in the Middle East. But Saudi Arabia has a plan for this.
There seems to be some sort of pervading myth that the oil-based economies of today don’t realize oil can’t last forever. Therefore, once the oil market collapses all these nations will die along with it. Obviously, this is untrue. Every one of these nations, from Angola to Saudi Arabia, is already making strides to diversify. The Vision 2030 program, led by the so-called “liberal” Prince Mohammad bin Salman (which really just means he’s a few steps to the left of the Ayatollahs), will boost sectors such as tourism and consumer goods. Hopefully, this will lead to Saudi Arabia moving their societal norms from the 15th century to the 19th.
In conclusion, the end of oil in Saudi Arabia, and in all oil-based economies, will just be a minor hiccup as their economies diversify, mostly in the name of preserving power but with a side effect of liberalization.
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Let me put something forward to get the discussion going.
The Saudi’s resources will last forever because the world’s need for oil will have diminished to a very low level before their resources are depleted. That’s because they have more resources, especially the attractive light oils, than almost anywhere else!
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Oil never ends. It accumulates over hundreds of years and it is an ongoing process. Oil extraction cost might get higher. Anyway, if oil does vanish Saudi Arabia will still be able to produce oil for 90 additional years because the huge reserve it has.
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Answered Aug 20, 2018
The official answer, according to ARAMCO is 69 years.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m7r7zJ0WQA
In other words, the story keeps changing.
Is a "botched interrogation" any better.
Al Jazeera has names and photos of 15 member assassination team.
It could not have happened without MbS knowing, in a country as authoritarian as that?
Stay tuned.
I feel so badly for Khashoggi's family and his fiancee.
trmp has to do something more than send Pompeo to meet Saudi king for 15 mins.
10-17-2018

https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/article/13024003/henry-callahan-kyi-may-kaung
TO APRIL 28
Henry Callahan
Kyi May Kaung
Unlike even the most experimental artists who preceded them, the abstract expressionists of the mid-20th century prided themselves on ignoring cues from the tangible world. For them, art was predominantly a way to express their deepest emotions. On first inspection, Henry Callahan's acrylics on canvas—now showing at the Foundry Gallery along with works by Kyi May Kaung—call to mind the works of Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko. But where those ab-ex giants would channel their emotions, the Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Callahan unabashedly channels nature when making his abstractions: Before the Storm (pictured) calls to mind a sea-and-sky horizon, complete with piscine forms roiling in the ocean. Similarly, Titanium Crescent features cresting waves and vertical strips that approximate undersea vegetation; the dark-hued upper half of Concrete Jungle suggests a deep forest. Kaung's palette is much lighter, though not always cheerier. Her works are a mix of watercolors and monotypes, influenced almost equally by Asian calligraphy and Western action painting: Several of her calligraphic pieces suggest a cacophony of street signs in an urban business district, whereas a number of her inkblot-filled works spin propulsively beyond the matte in the spirit of Jackson Pollock or Franz Kline. But her simplest works are her most pleasing; Courage and Haiku (for DG), feature balletic brushstrokes that cohere in near-perfect harmony. Both artists' works are on view from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday to Saturday; and from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, to Sunday, April 28, at Foundry Gallery, 9 Hillyer Court NW. Free. (202) 387-0203. (Louis Jacobson)

Sunday, October 14, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6RdmyLAuJg
No one compares with this man for Cetana (generosity, charity).
Without even electricity or running water he cooks for his children.
What I like about him and his sons are they are so clean and careful about what they cook, I like their pots and they don't stint on anything.
One commentator wrote something like "Why are you feeding (the orphans) such good food, rice and beans would be adequate, save the money for more important things,"
Which is like saying, "Don't waste cake on them."
But look how happy and healthy the children are.
Give Grandpa a Nobel Prize.
kmk
10-15-2018

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https://www.motherjones.com/media/2006/01/jungle-100/
I don't agree with this article.
I think too much of current novels are preoccupied with minutiae of suburban or middle class life, esp. "white life" or rich Asian life--too much love and sex and violence.
I much prefer the Dickensian big picture which takes on the world.
In fact why I am reading this is I want to write about the monks of the Saffron Revolution, who fled to Thailand, then gained asylum in USA (upstate NY) and then had to earn a living in a chicken factory.
U Gambira became brain damaged due to beatings in prison. He said before he was arrested, he had spent his entire life as a novice and a monk.
Buddhist monks aren't supposed to kill.
In Thailand I saw shrimp packing and tuna canning factories at Mahachai (Big Fort).
I was taken by a university contact to "the good ones" so I can only imagine what the really bad looked like. Also, I only saw the healthy workers. They lived in open huts or lean-tos built against the shrimp factory wall.
When the students started asking Qs, such as "Can't you provide chairs so the workers can sit down?"
The manager answered, "Wood chairs will dissolve? /splinter in the water."
After that my contact stopped translating.
In the shrimp factory there was 10 inches of water on the floor, though the workers had white boots on.
At the tuna canning factory the conveyor belt was set at tock tock tock, as you would read this.
So--I believe Upton Sinclair. I immediately gave away the canned tuna I received from the factory tour.
The industry is not only cruel to animals but also to the workers, as witness the workers (today, now, in 2018) throwing and slamming turkeys about.
AS for pigs squealing, my husband and I and a western guest heard a heart-rending squeal, which could only have come from the baby pigs (for suckling pig) we saw in a cage on our way up, being killed with a spear. Somehow I didn't realize when I saw the pink piglets that they would be on the menu soon.
--I have not eaten suckling pig since, except maybe one Thanksgiving when my Karen friends (Karen is a Burmese ethnic group) brought in a whole roast pig from Italian Market in Phila.
I still eat meat, but less and fortunately I like beans and bean products such as tofu and fake meat and crab meat made of gluten.
Another Karen lady was a vet and a USDA meat inspector, so she knows all about sausage meat.
kmk
10-11-2018

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Lianke
There's an article in The New Yorker, but the pay wall is blacking me out bc I have read "1/2 my quota" for this month.
Maybe you can find it and read it on your own.
He sure looks like a very prolific, talented and excellent writer.
kmk
10-10-2018

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Sunday, October 07, 2018

http://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/literature/books_by_title/N%20-%20S/Stephen_King/Stephen%20King%20-%20Night%20Shift%20-%20Night%20Surf.html
Don't feel too bad about reading this free copy.
I found it by accident because the unabridged The Stand is too long and winding for my taste
and the 1978 first edition is too expensive.
$78-$350 or so.
Generally I don't read King because it makes me too afraid.
I read one novel, way back in 1980s when I used to go to garage sales in Princeton and buy books for $1.
But I do think The Shawshank Redemption is one of the best movies ever made. It is based on a Stephen King short story. There's something about Rita Hayworth in the title.
There's a full length movie of The Stand with actor Viggo Mortenson
and
a short "Dollar Short" of Night Surf which was optioned from King for $1.00
So, it's a gift from Stephen King and we are using it for educational purposes.
Thank you, Mr. King.
He once said the good thing about his success was he could ask his mom to retire (she was shortly to be diagnosed with cancer) and he could "buy as many books as he wanted." He donates them after he's read them.
Like most writers, he is traumatized too.
It's like Tolstoy writing Anna Karenina after seeing someone jump in front of an approaching train.
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10-8-2018

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